Ex-NSA chief calls for Obama to reject recommendations

WASHINGTON — Retired general Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, called on President Obama Monday to show some political courage and reject many of the recommendations of the commission he appointed to rein in NSA surveillance operations. President Obama now has the burden of simply doing the right thing, Hayden told USA Todays Capital Download . And I think some of the right things with regard to the commissions recommendations are not the popular things. They may not poll real well right now. Theyll poll damn well after the next attack, all right? Obama, who received the report from the five-member advisory committee just before he left to vacation in Hawaii, has promised to make a pretty definitive statement in January about its 46 recommendations. He appointed the panel in the wake of a firesto...